Super-sized space freighter delayed on way to ISS, leaving snacks in jeopardy

NASA has delayed a supply delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) after the engines of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft did not perform as expected during an orbit-raising burn. This is the enlarged cargo spacecraft's first flight. The Cygnus XL carries 33 percent more payload than its predecessor, and …

[beast666]

An uncrewed Russian Progress vehicle arrived at the space station on Saturday on a planned cargo supply run.

[steelpillow]

touched down at SpaceX's Landing Zone 2 and the freighter was deployed

> approximately ten minutes after launch.

Well, thank goodness "and" does not entail temporal order. It could have been so much worse.

[the spectacularly refined chap]

Re: touched down at SpaceX's Landing Zone 2 and the freighter was deployed

Falcon 9 is a two stage rocket. The first stage is busy finding its way back to the pad while the second stage is still doing its thing.

[NetMage]

Now berthed with ISS. Apparently a software parameter for main engine was overly conservative.

[herman]

W0t - Trump's fault?

[herman]

OK, so if the control was not liberal enough, then maybe they should try adding an autopen.